Example sentences of "a brief [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wife to an elderly duke , he could have added , and his third wife at that ; it did occur to him fleetingly that she , perhaps , had something to gain , a brief recapture of life and youth before it was too late . |
| 2 | It was just a brief spell of ownership ; the war meant petrol rationing . |
| 3 | A dispute within the ruling Congress ( I ) Party in the southern state of Karnataka resulted in the imposition of a brief spell of President 's rule and an eventual change of Chief Minister . |
| 4 | A dispute within the ruling Congress ( I ) Party in Karnataka resulted in the imposition of a brief spell of President 's rule in October 1990 . |
| 5 | MacPublisher 's first incarnation was , to be polite , dreadful and version II fared little better despite a brief spell of fame as Letraset 's LetraPage . |
| 6 | After a brief spell as ambassador to Turkey , he was expelled from the party and then worked for the Slovak forestry commission . |
| 7 | Then , in 1979 , he had a brief spell as manager of non-league Oxford City . |
| 8 | His bedside locker held the conglomerate of offerings , necessities and minor diversions considered indispensable to a brief spell in hospital . |
| 9 | Following a brief look at inventory investment , the chapter concludes by assessing the role of investment in economic growth . |
| 10 | There was a brief look at war and peace before debate on ‘ Schema 13 ’ closed on 10 November , the 119th general congregation . |
| 11 | He leaned forward and slipped a hand into Nicola 's jacket pockets , then gave her a brief look of apology . |
| 12 | She had done what actors and singers were supposed to do — provided enchantment for a brief passage of time . |
| 13 | These featured the abolition of the post of general secretary and its replacement by that of party chairman ( this proposal appeared to be the basis of a rumour broadcast by the United States television network CNN on Jan. 30 , producing a brief panic in world financial markets , that Gorbachev was about to resign ) ; replacement of the politburo with a new body more broadly representative of the Soviet Union 's federal structure ; and reduction in the size of the central committee , which would become a permanent working body . |
| 14 | To make a long story short , I finally arranged for Service to record a brief message on tape which was flown to the Yukon and broadcast over loud-speakers during the cinema 's opening ceremonies . |
| 15 | To her it may seem that not only was she robbed of happiness during her marriage , but that she is now also being denied the right to grieve as well , for there will be those who will be expecting her mourning to be nothing more than a brief bow to convention , followed by a fairly speedy rise in spirits and return to normality . |
| 16 | A brief burst of prosperity in the early eighteenth century had provided a grand pilastered door case . |
| 17 | In Welshpool they halted to rest , and make good what losses they could , to dry out their arms and reflight their arrows ; and there was a brief council of war . |
| 18 | There 's a brief explosion of pain , a bit like biting on an exposed nerve , and it 's all over . |
| 19 | He laughed , a brief explosion of sound in the quiet room . |
| 20 | On their travels again they find , after a brief interlude for Christmas , that they are being followed . |
| 21 | A brief tour of inspection of London 's streets at the time that the Hooligans were publicly christened will help us to see something of what these quiet streets were made of . |
| 22 | He was educated at the Royal Liberty School , Romford , and , after a brief sojourn in banking , at Pembroke College , Cambridge , where he won cricket blues in 1931 , 1932 , and 1933 . |
| 23 | There will be a brief entertainment at midnight . |
| 24 | It had a brief rise to fame when , in 1895 , it started producing ‘ Ramie ’ fibre but , with the launch in 1905 of Courtaulds artificial fibre , the mill could no longer compete . |
| 25 | The woman in the next room gave a brief shriek of outrage and damage ; then came a silence so long that it was almost eerie . |
| 26 | It was promptly shattered by police arrests , and following the economic downturn of 1899 there was a brief fall-off in strike action and contact between intelligenty and workers declined . |
| 27 | Apart from a brief spurt of publicity , the futile exercise did neither The Wedding Present , nor the two bands involved , a great deal of good . |
| 28 | The " Tulip Era " of the early eighteenth century saw a brief spurt of interest in the western world and its technological accomplishments : under the Grand Vizier Damad Ibrahim Pasha ( 1717 – 30 ) five short-lived diplomatic missions were sent to Europe — two to Vienna , one each to Paris , Moscow and Warsaw . |
| 29 | Late afternoon and after a brief nap at home in Edinburgh , Frank McBride , the indefatigable chauffeur who will have driven Mr Smith more than 10,000 miles by the end of the campaign , brought his master to Stirling . |
| 30 | As he left she caught a brief flash of sapphire from his head . |